We met because of a beer can. Wait wait... keep reading, I promise it's worth it.

Once upon a time there was a boy (Sam), and there was a girl (Jess), and there were a bunch of guys in Austin, Texas who made a web series called "Red Vs Blue" (www.rvb.com).

The boy and the girl really liked watching this series on the Internet. They both made profiles on this website (much like a facebook profile, but with more geekiness). One day, the girl was looking at photos of people on the website and saw a picture of the boy with a beer can on his forehead. The girl thought to herself, "That is awesome, I need to meet this man."

She messaged him, and they started emailing each other. Emails turned to nightly phone calls, and around a year and half after they met, the boy said he needed a change and was thinking of moving from his hometown in Michigan. The girl said "Why don't you move to Colorado? We have beer!" The boy was able to negotiate a transfer from his job in Michigan to Colorado. Soon after, they started dating.

Six years after he moved here, we married in Loveland, and took our wedding photos at Loveland's very own Benson Sculpture park.

No, we didn't have a stereotypical romantic meeting or relationship, it was humor and a close friendship that for us, developed into love. There are no "love at first sight" or grand proposals with our story. It's simple, it's real and it's true. We fell in love with each other as I fell in love with our city again, introducing it to a new person.

For the two of us, this city lived up to its name. It has become our land of love. I will be forever grateful to this city for letting me grow up in such beauty, and for my life now, full of love, and laughter.